Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, has said that a plan was in place for an inclusive government in the war-torn nation before it fell to the Taliban on August 15, the media reported.

In an exclusive interview to TOLO News, the Afghan-origin diplomat said that few days before Kabul’s collapse, he was in Doha where he held talks with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the incumbent deputy prime minister of the Taliban government, and they agreed to hold talks with Afghan politicians and a delegation from the administration of former president Ashraf Ghani on forming an inclusive interim government. He further claimed that the Taliban had agreed to not enter Kabul until an inclusive government was formed.